Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932206AbWAKPxr (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:53:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751657AbWAKPxr (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:53:47 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:15590 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751652AbWAKPxf (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:53:35 -0500 Subject: Re: FAT and Microsoft patent? From: Arjan van de Ven To: Christopher Friesen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <43C51D65.3030309@nortel.com> References: <43C51D65.3030309@nortel.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:53:31 +0100 Message-Id: <1136994812.2929.58.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 600 Lines: 15 On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 08:59 -0600, Christopher Friesen wrote: > According to various sources, the USPTO has ruled that Microsoft's > patent on FAT is valid. > > Does this impact Linux? Will we have to remove the filesystem? this only impacts people who took a license, since then section 7 of the GPL forbids distribution of linux by those people ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/